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ˈpaperless, a.
[-less.]
Of an automated business system, etc.: in which paper is not used as a medium for the storage, transmission, etc., of information; computerized. Freq. in phr. paperless office.
1971New Scientist 13 May 386 An experimental paperless service in San Francisco already provides computer transfer of funds from the accounts of industrial corporations to those of their employees. 1975Business Week 30 June 48/1 Some believe that the paperless office is not that far off. Vincent E. Giuliano of Arthur D. Little, Inc., figures that the use of paper in business for records and correspondence should be declining by 1980, ‘and by 1990, most record-handling will be electronic’. 1981Bookseller 14 Nov. 1688/3 B Dalton Booksellers is now exchanging ‘paperless orders and invoices’ with more than 20 firms. 1986Sci. Amer. June 31/1 The 'paperless office' remains a scheme of the future. |